To:MAXIM GORKY

Written:Written in September, not earlier than 26, 1919Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51.

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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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AlexeiMaximych,

ComradeZinoviev will outline to you a plan of the
Commissariat for Foreign
Affairs.[1]We should try it. Will
you please draft a letter after talking it over in detail with
Zinoviev.

Greetings,Yours,Lenin

[1]Ina letter to Lenin dated September 26, 1919, Chicherin asked
that the question of a new peace proposal to the Entente should
be discussed in the C.C., R.C.P.(B.). Chicherin wrote that an
official proposal from the government could be addressed to the
Entente, or Gorky could be asked to write a letter pointing out
the Soviet Government’s invariable readiness to sign peace. Lenin
wrote on Chicherin’s letter: “...Notin the name of the
government.... Confine ourselves to Gorky’s letter....” =

(See present
edition, Vol. 42, p. 144.)